Brilliant phone experiencing one major issue. Basically unable to view document attachments
It doesnt support all file type for Excel, PDF I have docs to go full, Polaris office, think free office. The very same files I can view edit on my nexus s, desire hd and iPad 2 not a problem.
Anyone else experienced this problem or know a work around?
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HI All,
The Adobe Reader on TG01 hampers readabilty, as I increase the font size I have to slide the text all the while. I tried to install another Adobe2 programme, but it didn't work at all. What can I do? I'm in dire need of reading books and articles, as I can't carry my notebook everywhere. Please HELP!
regards,
shahzadahmad said:
HI All,
The Adobe Reader on TG01 hampers readabilty, as I increase the font size I have to slide the text all the while. I tried to install another Adobe2 programme, but it didn't work at all. What can I do? I'm in dire need of reading books and articles, as I can't carry my notebook everywhere. Please HELP!
regards,
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You can try using TG01 in landscape mode to read pdf files, it might reduce the number of times you want to scroll or you could use other softwares that could open pdf files. However, since pdf versions can be opened only by few softwares and adobe being one of the best, I don't think you would find increased benefits of using anything else. TG01 has a massive screen so you already are in benefit of not scrolling as much as you might do in smaller phones!
Landscape view for reading is what I normally do. What
I normally use landscape view for reading but here I mean when I had Imate Jamin, I could read pdfs very easily with the Adobe2, because it had text wrapping function. The default Adobe doesn't have this text wrapping function. Can anyone suggest how the problem can be solved?
shahzadahmad said:
I normally use landscape view for reading but here I mean when I had Imate Jamin, I could read pdfs very easily with the Adobe2, because it had text wrapping function. The default Adobe doesn't have this text wrapping function. Can anyone suggest how the problem can be solved?
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There are two types of PDF documents:
1) Image based or scanned documents (without OCR process) , that are just graphic documents, and
2) text documents (from a text source or OCR process)
1) Regarding the first type, we are limited by the screen size (I agree with other replies, working in landscape can help us). We can only scrolling across the document using a PDF reader. For this, I recommend Foxit Reader (http://www.foxitsoftware.com).
2) If instead, the pdf is based on text, the Adobe Reader that comes with the TG01 is useless, because it don't have the text re-flow option (I think that it's the same that shahzadahmad calls "text wrapping function")
You have to replace the Adobe Reader version. Mine is LE 2.5.00
If you want to try it, I've uploaded my copy, but it's in Spanish. I think that if you search a bit, you will find the same version (or newer) in English.
For text only, another great possibility is convert the PDF on EPUB with Calibra or AnyBizSoft PDF to EPUB and reading it with FREDA (a free EPUB reader)
http://www.turnip.demon.co.uk/jim/freda/freda6.htm. The reading experience it's much better (but you need an external PC to convert the document)
Hope this help you
UPDATE: I've just discovered a web site where you can convert online documents to EPUB and FREE!! : http://www.2epub.com/
I am considering buying a Flyer, and was wondering if somebody could try something for me please?
I've heard that you can edit office documents on the flyer, and was wondering if
A. It was limited to Microsoft Office,
B. Can you use drop down menus etc. setup in a spreadsheet,
C. Does formatting carry over directly from a P.C. or do you lose some of the formatting like most portable office viewers.
If somebody was able to carry out a few tests for me using Microsoft Office, and OpenOffice, I would be hugely grateful.
Cheers.
Steve.
Anybody able to give me any answers?
Well I'll add some info...I have not done a lot of document editing on the tablet, however. I have opened up some word, excel, and powerpoint documents, and it holds up the format well for viewing on tablet from what I have seen. The software used is polaris office. Editing abilities for powerpoints are severely limited. You can move stuff around and edit text. I am not seeing an obvious way to add items. Excel is similar in limitations. Word limits things to simple text editing (bold italics underline). Overall I'm going to say it is mostly just suitable for viewing these things, unless the document is very basic.
My other advice is to head on over to a best buy or sprint and try some of your files out first hand. They may let you plug in a sd card, or if not, throw a few files up on dropbox and download them to the tab in store. I did that to see how powerpoints would look on it, which was my main concern.
Cheers johnchad14.
I'll give it a try.
I put some pdfs and an m4v and flv video on the device, organized in folders. I go in acrobat reader and it seems to find the pdfs, but just puts them in a single list, rather than showing the file hierarchy.
I would like to be able to browse the file hierarchy and touch a file and have it open. I have a lot of pdfs to put in the device and they need to be organized, not one big list.
Also would like to search for text in PDFs.
Ideally I am looking for something similar to ipad's Goodreader wher you can organize a hieararchy of mixed file types, PDF and video, and view any of them.
Acrobat reader and Quick Office seem to be a little slow to load. I am wondering if there is an app for this that is quick loading.
Any ideas?
Agree that Acrobat reader is one of the worst PDF readers all across the pad platforms. But unfortunately it seems that's the only choice on webos. Hope this wave of TP can bring some new PDF reader to it.
[Q] How to search through a PDF?
please excuse the question but I tried google a few times and couldn't get anything. Can the default adobe PDF viewer even search documents? If it can how the hell can I find the option? Is there anything 3rd party that allows searching through pdfs?
[Q] PDF Reading and Citrix?
To current owners, how is reading pdfs on the TP? Is it snappy like Ipad 2 and how about large pdfs like 100mb or greater? I dont really care about annotations.
Also does Citrix work? I saw an ad showing Citrix working. Thx
For the pdf file it's very fast and snappy,very usable, but only tested with a couple of 50Mo one, if you have bigger to test give me a link.
About citrix, take a look here:
http://forums.precentral.net/webos-development/190779-request-citrix-app.html
And
http://blogs.citrix.com/2011/02/09/...ake-webos-devices-enterprise-ready-at-launch/
Ok, I couldn't resist the temptation and got a Touchpad to play with. The two hospital pages where I use Citrix to access medical records don't work. The demo on Youtube looks so smooth . Adobe Acrobat on the WebOS is just as horrid as on the Android platform. There is no way, I can sit there read the PDFs in this condition. The letters all look fuzzy, and I don't think this is purely an issue with resolution and display. The software doesn't fully render it.
The good part is that flash works really well from the browser. Very well done. Also the cards arrangement of the overall OS is the best I have seen out of all 3 tablet platforms. It's unfortunate. I think it just take a little more work from HP to make it competitive.
1. A better screen. It's listed as IPS display but no where close to the Ipad.
2. Work out the small bugs in the WebOS
This pad desperately needs Alkido.
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please excuse the question but I tried google a few times and couldn't get anything. Can the default adobe PDF viewer even search documents? If it can how the hell can I find the option? Is there anything 3rd party that allows searching through pdfs?
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Not to the best of my knowledge, I've looked through every option and nothing. I also asked this same question about searching PDFs and never got a response. FYI I have a few 40mb+ pdfs w/ schematic drawings and it has the tendency of chugging along or even worse it loses the menu bar uptop where I can select pages from. I'll get stuck on page 230 out of 500 and will have to close the card down and open it up again to get the number list.
It seems like Polaris just corrupts any documents (unable to be read by Polaris, only by Microsoft Word 2010) it saves if the document was created by an old Microsoft Word. So whenever I download one of my professors documents, I have to save it in Microsoft 2010 or Open Office first which is a real hassle.
Just wondering if anyone has this problem and if they have an Android based solution since I don't like having to use a PC to resave the document when I have class in 5 minutes.
I've noticed that Polaris will put data in the wrong field on excel docs. It took me a while to figure out what was going on. When I first opened up a complex excel doc, there were several fields that had error type messages in the box. After looking through the file, and others like it, I noticed that in several places there would be data that was supposed to be in, say column B, that was in column C rather sporadically... like maybe once for every 20 correct entries in column C. It was only noticeable because data from column B was text while data that was supposed to be in column C was numbers for calculations which lead to errors in the rest of the document.
I posted another thread asking what others were using for office docs since I no longer trust polaris but didn't get a response.
Polaris Office has had corruption issues of one sort or another since the OG TF101 AFAIK. Never read the forum thread on it in too much detail.
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Does any one know how to download polaris office on S3 ?
The phone only has the viewer and asks to download the editor. Where and how can I get it ?
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The phone should have the full Polaris, no?
According to gsmarena.com: "You can view and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents and there's a PDF viewer to boot. Editing on the large 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display is a breeze and covers an almost full set of options - text style, justification, paragraph formatting, bullets, even creating tables (that's a first). If you're editing an Excel file, you get a formula wizard, resize rows/columns, border style, merge cells and so on. Even full-featured PowerPoint presentations are doable."
Are you sure it's just a viewer? I'm going to be a very sad panda if it turns out there's only a viewer on my phone. The inclusion of a full office editing suite was a big selling point for me...
Damn Sure
Oh noes! Catastrophy!
I got my shiny new SGS3 in my hand, and there is no Polaris Office on it, and it's not available in Samsung Apps for me either!
It looks like you can open and edit existing files but you can't access the Polaris Office suite directly to create new files.
That's what it seems like on my gs3 anyway!
koken2 said:
It looks like you can open and edit existing files but you can't access the Polaris Office suite directly to create new files.
That's what it seems like on my gs3 anyway!
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It is the viewer-only version. I can't edit files on my SGS3.
See if you can find the Polaris apk on the SGS2 forum and try that .
jje
Has anyone managed to get the full version of Polaris ?
polaris office full
I have tried using the polaris office from the s2 including coying across libpolarisoffice.so and I get an error "this is a model which the library does not support"
hmmm
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Has anyone managed to get the full version of Polaris ?
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It was available on More services last week... I dont know why Samsung has again removed it. Few people have downloaded it. guys @ dialandroid youtube have made a video also..